XXII REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Salaries or compensation — Continued. 



1 k f6 months, at $50 $300.00 



12$ months 8 days, at $55 151. 70 



1 clerk, Hi months, at $45 517. 50 



1 clerk, 2 months 20 days, at $35 92.58 



1 copyist, 4$ months, at $35 157. 50 



1 messenger, 6 months 16 days, at $25 -. 162. 90 



r22 days, at $3 66.00 



1 carpenter 12± days, at $3 36.75 



l20days, at$3 60.00 



1 painter, 5 days, at $2 10.00 



,,, 179 days, at $1.50 118.50 



1 laborer J ' „ • 



1 224 days, at $1.50 336. 00 



1 cleaner, 13 days, at $1 13. 00 



1 agent, 12 months, at $50 600.00 



., ,[6 months, at $83.33$ 500.00 



1 agent 



° 16 months, at $91.66| 550.00 



Total salaries of compensation 14, 519. 73 



General expenses : 



Freight $1,502.32 



Printing 9. 50 



Postage and telegrams 20. 32 



Supplies 193.03 



Traveling expenses 574. 18 



2,299.35 



Total disbursements $16,819.08 



Balance July 1, 1896 180.92 



INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1895. 

 Balance July 1, 1895, as per last report $2. 01 



Disbursements. 

 Supplies 1. 80 



Balance July 1, 1896 .21 



INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES, 1894. 



Balance July 1, 1895, as per last report $0. 10 



Balance carried, under the provisions of the Revised Statutes, section 3090, by the 

 Treasury Department to the credit of the surplus fund, June 30, 1896. 



NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, 1896. 



Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, "for 

 continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians, under 

 the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or com- 

 pensation of necessary employees, $40,000, of which sum not exceeding 

 $1,000 may be used for rent of building" (sundry civil act, March 2, 



1895) $40,000.00 



The actual conduct of these investigations has been continued by the Secretary in 



the hands of Maj. J. W. Powell, Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



